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<div><br></div><div>May 22, 2020, 17:55 by allan@mustard.net:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Bearing in mind Mateusz's admonition, "Wait for someone to volunteer and<br></div><div>fix? It would be nice, but not sure what are chances of that," perhaps<br></div><div>we have reached the outer limits of what the do-ocracy can accomplish in<br></div><div>this case.<br></div></blockquote><div>Maybe OSMF can try to more actively look for someone?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Post request in dev/talk/etc mailing list, on Telegram channels, on US Slack<br></div><div>channels etc? Banner on the main page is probably an overkill, <br></div><div>but going through all channels and posting there once should be OK.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And on blog, Twitter (if there is an account there) etc?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Not sure about chance that someone will volunteer but maybe it will work?<br></div><div>Even if chances are 1% of finding someone wiling and able to help<br></div><div>maybe it would be worth doing?<br></div><div><br></div><div>(I am active in some of them and will post/link if anyone will prepare such call for help)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>TomH suggests migrating to StackExchange and says it's a process he's<br></div><div>familiar with. It's beyond my technical knowledge so I cannot really<br></div><div>comment. Presumably we would have to pay someone to handle the<br></div><div>migration. I have no idea what the volume of work would be or how much<br></div><div>it would cost.<br></div></blockquote><div>It seems that in such case main cost is social one.<br></div><div>OSM community would no longer control QA site (via OSMF)<br></div><div>, it would be controlled by StackExchange company.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That is a relatively OK company, but things were going in clearly bad direction<br></div><div>recently, though there are signs that maybe collapse was stopped.<br></div><div><br></div><div>And it seems there would be nothing to migrate as help.openstreetmap is<br></div><div>CC BY-SA 2.0 licensed and from what I see new content on StackExchange<br></div><div>sites is CC BY-SA 4.0.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible for OSMF to relicense answers and questions text?<br></div> </body>
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